Today I experimented with my new Foaming Bath Butter. I created a beautiful Sugar Scrub with one of my favourite fragrances; Pink Sugar.
It is so easy to work with the FBB. The result looks absolutely delicisious. Good enough to eat I think.
Tomorrow I will post the photo tutorial.

From today we are selling not only a variety of Melt & Pour soap (clear, olive, organic, shea, goats milk and avocado & cucumber) in our webshop, but also Foaming Bath Butter.
Foaming Bath Butter is brilliant for creating scrubs, (facial) cleaners, shaving cream etc. You can mix it to make it fluffy and double in volume. Then add some fragrance, colour and either salt or sugar to make a nice scrub.
Or melt it, add fragrance and colour to make a nice bath butter.
With a PH value of 5.5 it can also be used to create facial products.
This weekend I am going to make some nice christmas gifts for my mum with it.

My sweet baby is now almost 11 weeks old and grows like mad. He resembles a little buddha (although DH managed to make him look like a baby shrek).
As he has quite a bit of stomach ache at night lately I have a nice relaxing bath with him. I made some Lavender Bath Oil to moisturize his skin. The recipe is posted above.

Bubble bars or solid bubble bath are very popular, but it requires a different technic to making soap. As a lot of people have problems making them and there is no clear info to be found, it seemed useful to make a photo tutorial.

Now weigh the cream of tartar. Put this also through the strainer (it is quite lumpy) into the bowl.

If you want to add other powdered ingredients you can do so at this point. Mix the dry ingredients well.
Now add the fragrance and mix this through the dry mixture.

Make sure the fragrance is fully incorperated. It might be helpfull to squeeze it with your hands until you do not feel any lumps.

Now put your mask on and very carefully weigh the SLS/SLSA. This is a very fine powder that can irritate your lungs, so keep kids/animals out of the room and air very well.
Add the powder to the mixture.

Fold the mixture very carefully. If you mix too vigorously the dust will send you out of the room coughing your lungs out.

Add your fluid surfactants little by little.

Now put your gloves on and knead the mixture. If it is too dry you add a bit more liquid surfactant, if it is too wet you add a bit of tapioca powder.

You are ready when the mixture forms a ball and your gloves are pretty clean.

Now mix your colourant(s) with a little glycerine. Try to make sure no lumps are left as these will show in your final product.

Divide your mixture in the parts you want to colour. Keep one part in the mixing bowl and set the rest aside.

Now add your colourant and knead with your hands until the colour is solid. If the mixture becomes too sticky, just add some tapioca powder.

Sprinkle some tapioca on the silicone sheet and put one part of the mixture on this.

Now push the mixture down with your fingers to make a flat pancake.

If the top gets sticky, just dust with some tapioca. The thinner the pancake, the easier to roll.

Now add your second layer on top of the first and flatten this one as well.

Now fold the bottom over and push down lightly.

Now fold the bottom of the sheet over a bit further, so more gets rolled.

Continue until the roll is fully rolled up. Now squeeze the roll lightly, so all layers stick together.

Cut the roll in equal parts.

You can see the rolled layers here.

Take each piece and hand form it to your liking. I made every piece round and lightly pushed it down.

Now let the bubble pieces dry for at least 24 hours before packaging. They should feel hard to the touch.

To use them you crumble one under warm running water. Now slide into the bath and enjoy your luxurious bubbles!

Today was a busy day. First I had to go to the doctor with the baby for his first vaccination and in the afternoon my daughter needed a small operation on her wrist. In between, as the baby was asleep with a paracetamol, I managed to make a white-green salt bar with coconut cream. It smells like lemongrass & lime.

My mum asked me for a nice body wash that had to clean and moisturise her skin. Nice idea, but not easy to accomplish. After doing some research I came up with the recipe above.
It seems like a very nice one, so I am curious what she thinks of it.

I have another soap in the mold and I think it looks pretty good. The soap is made with lots of cocoa butter and french green clay. The scent is a lot like the perfume Euphoria from CK, soft flowery and feminine. I think I will develop a scrub and body cream for this line as well.

A few days ago I decided to make a patchouli-vanilla soap, when the soap monster passed through my house. The soap quickly got too thick to make the black/purple/pink swirl I has envisioned. As the soap smells absolutely divine and has lots of cocoa and shea butter in it I decided to save it by making a new pink topping. It does look like a soap fit for Woodstock, so I am happy with it. Lets hope the soap monster moved on to another house now.

The past few days I have been working on my new shop. For this I use a new tool called Magento. This is real fun, but still difficult to master all the new functionalities.
DH thinks I should get someone else to do it for me, but my pride does not let me do that. So today I am going at it again. Hopefully I will have finished it by the end of the week.

Today I made a wonderful soap with Guinness (dark beer) instead of water. When the soap ripens it will produce a lovely lather. Besides that, beer is something that appeals to the gents, so it makes a wonderful gift. I kept the scent unisex; citrus, lemongrass and sage. I tested the final scent on DH and he loved it as well, so it seems like a good new addition to my soaps.

A while back I decided to make a rose soap with a difference. First I made a CP soap cake with added shea butter. In order to make it more romantic I added a pink swirl and a English rose perfume oil. The icing I made with shea butter glycerine soap. It turned out to be a very popular soap.

Today I cut my "Lavender dream" soap. I just could not stop my curiousity until I received my cutter from the US, so I had to peek.
The soap was made with lavender e.o. and smells divine, just like a summer day in France.